Towards a Generic Governance Model for Service Oriented Architectures

TLDR

Service‑oriented architecture (SOA) is increasingly viewed as a flexible alternative to monolithic enterprise systems, yet its governance faces new challenges and existing frameworks are largely product‑driven and vary widely in scope. This paper aims to outline and compare existing SOA governance approaches and to propose a generic governance model for SOA. The authors review and contrast current SOA governance frameworks and synthesize their findings into a unified generic governance model.

Abstract

Over the past years, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) Systems have been recognized more and more as a serious alternative to common monolithic systems for Enterprise Architectures (EA). An SOA provides a flexible means of effectively mapping business processes to IT processes. However, large IT systems require consistent leadership – IT Governance. For SOAs, governance faces new challenges. A number of different approaches for SOA Governance Frameworks exist, which differ extensively in scope and capability, as most of them are product-driven and developed by software companies. In this paper, we outline and compare existing SOA Governance approaches and present our approach a Generic Governance Model for SOA.